When will the baby swap storyline end?
leopard_print
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Have we been given any suggestion as to when the baby swap storyline will end. I don't like it, and feel uncomfortable watching it all. Perhaps Eastenders bosses may end it quicker now that there has been a few 1000 complaints?
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Agreed, the fallout will be MASSIVE but to me it might actually LOSE some impact the longer it runs. I know if it were real life the opposite would be true, but in soap I don't think it works like that for the viewers.
A couple of months would sound about right to me. Any more will be really hard to sustain imo.
What Ronnie does ISN'T the revel in Feb, going by the soap magazines, I believe that to be true.
And then there are strong rumours it's going to run and run. :rolleyes:
i thought the club foot was explained very well in last night's episode, I did wonder if it was possible that this could be a temporary condition as a result of being pressed in the womb or during the birth, and the midwife, although puzzled, did offer that explanation when she said it could right itself in a few weeks, obviously this is much less than a few weeks, but mistakes are made with medical records all the time, in my work I often have medical records to review and you might be surprised at how much wrong information is entered!
I am ruling 2 years out. It coming out in the next month or two ties in with the actors saying about their stressful scenes, and Scott's comments during Strictly about how heavy the stuff was he was filming at the time, not just 'normal' filming-busy.
i think that is what will make it compellng viewing! is it right to take away a toddler from the only parents he has known and send him across the Square to live with his rightful family? but at the same time you can't legally or morally deprive the parents of their son!
Forget about how Kat/Ronnie bonded with the baby. How on earth can they show Ronnie having a mental breakdown last a year? How can they not show a massive breakdown/ her suicidal after everything that has gone on. Ronnie has already contemplated suicide twice! In addition, there are Ronnie's issues about being Archie, keeping mothers from babies and the fact she doesn't want to bring up a baby that isnt hers. For this to go on longer than a few months would completely undo what they are supposedly trying to show; Ronnie's behaviour due to her grief causing her to be having a breakdown!
Imo that only makes compelling viewing with teenagers or older children where you can see and hear their reactions. A child under 2; how will that be compelling viewing? Th child would adapt in a few days/ weeks like it had never happened.
I really hope its the latter.
KAT: For God sakes Ronnie stop asking me to babysit, I'm not its mother
RONNIE: oh yes you are
DUFF DUFF
The 26th anniversary would actually be a good time for the reveal.
The soap reveiwer on 'This Morning' on Monday intimated that the producers wanted this story to run for years, but perhaps the pressure of so many complaints will be brought to bear.
same here
If she did maybe the initial 'reveal' won't be that Ronnie swapped them. It might be discoveted that 'James' is 'Tommy' and that it's assumed by everyone they were swapped at the hospital (and Ronnie plays along)?
If Kat didn't go to hospital then ignore me!